The Arts

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The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines.

In modern usage, it is a term broader than “art”, which usually means the visual arts (comprising both fine art, decorative art, and crafts).

The arts encompasses:

  • visual arts
  • performing arts
  • language arts
  • culinary arts
  • physical arts.

Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree.

The various arts
A precise definition of the arts can be contentious, but the following areas of activity usually are included:

Architecture
Art & Visual arts
Crafts
Culinary art
Dance
Decorative art
Design
Drawing
Fashion
Film
Language
Literature
Music
Opera
Painting
Photography
Poetry
Sculpture
Theatre & Performing arts
Ikebana
Video

The Art - MUSIC

  • Jazz - Herbie Hancock

Album of the Year:
The River: The Joni Letters

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American jazz pianist and composer.

He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.

As part of Miles Davis’s “second great quintet,” Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the “post-bop” sound.

Later, he was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk.

Yet for all his restless experimentalism, Hancock’s music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs “cross over” and achieve success among pop audiences.

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Herbie

Herbie won the 2008 Grammy - Album of the Year for The River: Jonie Letters.

  • Classical - Yo-Yo Ma

A Musician of Many Cultures
by Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma created the Silk Road Project in 1998 to explore the cultural traditions of the countries along the ancient trade route through Asia. He lives with his family in Cambridge, Mass. Photo: www.yo-yoma.com.
All Things Considered, March 10, 2008 • I believe in the infinite variety of human expression.
I grew up in three cultures: I was born in Paris, my parents were from China and I was brought up mostly in America. When I was young, this was very confusing: everyone said that their culture was best, but I knew they couldn’t all be right.
I felt that there was an expectation that I would choose to be Chinese or French or American. For many years I bounced among the three, trying on each but never being wholly comfortable. I hoped I wouldn’t have to choose, but I didn’t know what that meant and how exactly to “not choose.”
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YO-YO MA

The Art - PHYSICAL

Ikebana

Ikebana (生け花, Ikebana? “arranged flower”[1]) is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, also known as kadō (華道, kadō? the “way of flowers”).

In contrast to the massing of blooms typical of flower arrangement in western countries, Japanese flower arrangement is based on the line of twigs and/or leaves, filled in with a small number of blooms.

The container is also a key element of the composition. The structure of a Japanese flower arrangement is based on a scalene triangle delineated by three main points, usually twigs, considered in some schools to symbolize heaven, earth, and man and in others sun, moon and earth.

Ikebana, one of the traditional arts of Japan, has been practiced for more than 600 years. It developed from the Buddhist ritual of offering flowers to the spirits of the dead.

By the middle of the fifteenth century, with the emergence of the first classical styles, Ikebana achieved the status of an art form independent of its religious origins, though it continued to retain strong symbolic and philosophical overtones.

The first teachers and students were priests and members of the nobility. However, as time passed, many different schools arose, styles changed, and Ikebana came to be practiced at all levels of Japanese society.

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